RATIONED GOODS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25172, 12 March 1943, Page 2

RATIONED GOODS

SALES BY AUCTION COUPONS NOW NECESSARY ,p A ) WELLINGTON. Mar. 11. An amendment to the Rationing Emergency Regulations, which was gazetted today, makes three important alterations in the regulations. Auctioneers are now classed as traders, ana sales of goods made by them are subject to the same control as the sale of rationed goods by other traders. Auctioneers are now required to collect coupons for all rationed goods and may not put up to auction tea or sugar without perm Another provision states that unauthorised oersens will not be permitted to supply sugar to a manufacturer, and manufacturers may not procure sugar from consumers for use in their business. The third provision increases the fee charged for the replacement of lost ration books. , .. . Commenting on the regulations tonight. the Minister of Supply, Mr D. G. Sullivan, said there was no reason why auctioneers should not require the surrendei of coupons in the same way as other traders. So far as supplies from consumers to manufacturers were concerned, he said, this in effect increased a manufacturer’s allocation, which was fixed at a figure calculated on the previous consumption. The growing practice of manufacturers securing sugar from consumers had resulted in sugar being diverted from the point of its intended use, and this in some measure had militated against the satisfactory operation of the rationing scheme.